عربي English Türkçe اردو فارسى
Logo
Latest News
World

Italian Minister Requests Revoking of Arrest of Detained Iranian Businessman

Italian Justice Minister Carlo Nordio looks on as he leaves at the end of the annual Confindustria assembly in Rome, September 18, 2024. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/File Photo
Italian Justice Minister Carlo Nordio looks on as he leaves at the end of the annual Confindustria assembly in Rome, September 18, 2024. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/File Photo
TT
TT

Italian Minister Requests Revoking of Arrest of Detained Iranian Businessman

Italian Justice Minister Carlo Nordio looks on as he leaves at the end of the annual Confindustria assembly in Rome, September 18, 2024. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/File Photo
Italian Justice Minister Carlo Nordio looks on as he leaves at the end of the annual Confindustria assembly in Rome, September 18, 2024. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/File Photo

The Italian justice minister has filed a request to revoke the arrest of an Iranian businessman detained in Milan who was wanted by the United States on suspicion of involvement in a drone strike against its forces, the justice ministry said on Sunday.

Mohammad Abedini was arrested in Milan last month on a US warrant for allegedly supplying drone parts that Washington says were used in a 2024 attack that killed three US service members in Jordan.

"Minister (Carlo) Nordio filed a request with the Milan Court of Appeal to revoke the arrest of Iranian citizen Abedininajafabadi Mohammad," a justice ministry statement said, Reuters reported.

Under Italian law, courts must abide by the minister's request.

In his statement, Nordio wrote that legal conditions were not in place to extradite Abedini as that could only be done for offences punishable both in Italy and in the United States.

The statement said violations of the International Economic Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA) did not correspond to conduct recognizable as a crime under Italian law. It added there was no evidence corroborating the other charges of supporting a terrorist organization.

Earlier this week, Nordio said the US had not yet submitted a formal request to extradite Abedini.

Most Viewed

 
 
World

Turkish Intelligence Captures Suspect in 2013 Southern Türkiye Attack

The site of the blast in the town of Reyhanli in Hatay province, near the Turkish-Syrian border
The site of the blast in the town of Reyhanli in Hatay province, near the Turkish-Syrian border
TT
TT

Turkish Intelligence Captures Suspect in 2013 Southern Türkiye Attack

The site of the blast in the town of Reyhanli in Hatay province, near the Turkish-Syrian border
The site of the blast in the town of Reyhanli in Hatay province, near the Turkish-Syrian border

Türkiye’s intelligence agency captured a man suspected of perpetrating a 2013 bomb attack in the southern Hatay province that killed 53 people, Turkish security sources said on Monday.

The sources said the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) captured, in Syria, Mohammed Dib Korali, one of the perpetrators of the twin car bombs that ripped through the border town of Reyhanli on May 11, 2013.

The MIT said Dib Korali was arrested in a cross-border operation into Syria and handed over to Hatay police.

He was suspected of planning the attack and providing the bombs.

In mid-December, Turkish law enforcement captured Cengiz Sertel, also one of the perpetrators of the deadly 2013 terrorist attack. Sertel was wanted under a red bulletin and the orange category on the Turkish Interior Ministry's list of those wanted for terrorism.

Sertel was found to have transferred the explosives used in the attack in the Reyhanli district of Hatay province from Syria to Türkiye, according to a written statement by the provincial governor's office.

On June 30, 2022, the mastermind of the Reyhanli attacks, Mehmet Gezer, was arrested after being extradited from the United States.

His arrest came after Yusuf Nazik confessed that Gezer played a key role in the bombing. US authorities delivered Gezer, a drug lord sought on a red notice with different 17 charges, to Turkish police upon their arrival at Istanbul Airport.

Türkiye continues its arrest campaign against suspects in the twin car bombs, which it says are linked to a group loyal to Syria’s then-President Bashar al-Assad.

In February 2018, a Turkish court sentenced nine suspects to life imprisonment and 13 other people to prison terms of 10 to 15 years for the bombings.

Reyhanli is located on the nearest point to Syria’s Aleppo province. It became a flashpoint after Ankara supported armed opposition factions against the Assad regime, which fell on December 8.